The house is noisy today. It sounds like a bunch of things rattling around in bags and boxes.

If you want to entertain kids, noise helps. If you want kids to sit still for a writing workshop, noise helps. So, I’m making sure my bag of Lego® blocks shakes and jangles appropriately.
The blocks have words on them, though they didn’t come out of the factory in Denmark that way. In the Developing the Intermediate Writer Workshop we use the blocks as, well, building blocks to make sentences.

I’m also shaking some boxes. We use boxes to teach good paragraph structure. Each box has a collection of items with which students will write paragraphs.

So, the house really is noisy today with blocks and knick-knacks rattling around. Oh, there is also the din of people yelling for peace and quiet.

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